Spider-Man: Edge of Time - Part 2

[MrCitrin3]

Eh, not really. To understand why we arent getting good Spidey titles, you need to understand Activision. Activision cares for one thing and one thing only. Money. Now thats fine, they are a business after all, however Activision doesnt rely on their games to sell, they rely on their licenses to sell. Call of Duty has become a name, a name that sell very well. Spider-Man is a name, that for a while, sold really well. Its why they spend the money to get those licenses. They realize its the name that sells. They can take a title, develop it for very little money and turn out a decent profit. They keep doing this until the title is no longer making a large profit. Once that happens, they dump it. This happened to Tony Hawk and Guitar Hero. They have now taken this approach to Spidey. They want to push as many Spidey games out as they can before the license goes stale, which they are betting it will.

So you would think that if EoT were to come to huge sales that'd theyd turn around and put that money into creating a great Spidey title, but in fact itd be the complete opposite. Theyd say they have a great success in the formula and just completely rehash it until it no longer works. Like iv said, theyve done it all before.

true... and i didn't mean call of duty call of duty just the system :P cod hasn't felt good since cod4

but i don't really care about cod... i care about something that's been with me all my life... and many people think i'm childish for caring and say it's not important... i don't feel that...

the first comic i got was a spidey comic, and i watched the 90's show growing up... and i would love to think there's hope for spidey games

i mean look at batman... batman forever (only old skool one i played) sucked ass, even batman begins wasn't that great of a game...

but in the right hands a game that feels like batman was created... and i don't care what they ripped off... it feels like batman, nice art and style, awesome voice work, and now Arkham city looks to be an even better game...

am i wrong to think beenox might end up doing for spidey what rocksteady did for b-man?

i won't turn down a spidey game for not being an open world game, sure i feel that's what spidey needs in order to fully blow our freaking minds!

but i still think these are good spidey games none the less.

and i know Activision is a more driven by money then making good games

but with effort maybe beenox can provide good games even with those odds... i don't know

but i would really like to think so

 

[ProjectPat2280]

Beenox, regardless of what they want to do are being run by Activision. Im sure Beenox would love to take a full 2 years to develop a Spidey game, but its not up to them.


Batman just got lucky that WB/Eidos cared enough to give Rocksteady the time they needed to craft a good game. Activision has a business model of putting out yearly installments of all their franchises, regardless of the game. Its why Activision has dropped some of the licenses they have owned, because they couldnt put them out on a yearly basis.

 

[MrCitrin3]

sure time wise it doesn't but the effort and ideas count alot!

i've seen games with more then 2 years dev time that failed...

 

[Spider-Aziz]

YAY a reply

Thank you

Your welcome

Nice i hope they're given more time to work on spidey titles but knowing activision they'll just have to be awesome Developers and make great games happen!

Between WoS & SD they had two years, even if the devs changed, I can hope for a game with more developing time

So you think another studio will be making the movie game?

Not really, I don't expect a game based on this movie series

honestly i'd rather they only make games with time and with original ideas getting the source material from the comics then try and milk a movie : /

I hope so too, I enjoyed the sandbox movie based games more than the rest, they did the most fun Spidey games based on movies, but I hope that my next dream Spidey game would be comic based

so Spider-Aziz do you think that they'll keep up the linear style of game?

There are speculations and rumors suggestion this one could be like Arkham Asylum in roaming after the story ends to finish challenges and stuff

 

[MrCitrin3]

There are speculations and rumors suggestion this one could be like Arkham Asylum in roaming after the story ends to finish challenges and stuff

YES! steps in the right direction!

if they keep improving on this i might really become a beenox suporter :P

also i just ordered all spidey games that i haven't played for a while and also got The Incredible Hulk UD

i'm doing a spider-man marathon and beat all games from spidey 2 till SD before EoT comes out :P

but on topic

if they do let you explore the whole builing again it would be pretty cool since i love collecting tokens and stuff and replaying with alternate costumes

ps: you guys are awesome and i feel like i have a place to talk about spider-man games and be taken seriously

Thank you

 

[Spider-Aziz]

YES! steps in the right direction!

if they keep improving on this i might really become a beenox suporter :P

If EoT impressed me enough I may be their supporter

also i just ordered all spidey games that i haven't played for a while and also got The Incredible Hulk UD

i'm doing a spider-man marathon and beat all games from spidey 2 till SD before EoT comes out :P

In case you don't get bored of Spider-Man 3 on the PS3 and stop from completing it, here are the QTE sequences list. I played it on PC, but below there is what every key stands for
While you chase Scorpion in mission 2 you can skip the two QTE sequences going high enough

but on topic

if they do let you explore the whole builing again it would be pretty cool since i love collecting tokens and stuff and replaying with alternate costumes

ps: you guys are awesome and i feel like i have a place to talk about spider-man games and be taken seriously

Thank you

That's what I love about these forums

 

[MrCitrin3]

well the only thing that bugs me are the pre-order bonus costumes i mean have you seen them? they are awesome and there's like 5 for gamestop and 1 for amazon i think...

but i won't buy them there since i live in portugal and prices here are steap in retail shops (most games go for 70€ and take ages to drop a penny)

so i'll buy them off a portuguese website that sells imported games from 20 to 30 less €

that means they screwed me off really awesome costumes : (

 

[ProjectPat2280]

Dont worry, all those costumes will be in the game eventually. You dont have to preorder from select stores to get them.

 

[MrCitrin3]

Not really, I don't expect a game based on this movie series

why not?

Dont worry, all those costumes will be in the game eventually. You dont have to preorder from select stores to get them.

man i really hope so :/

 

[Spider-Aziz]

why not?

It's kind of late to start developing that, if what I read a while back is true about developers saying "It's too early to start the movie game" back at the time

 

[MrCitrin3]

It's kind of late to start developing that, if what I read a while back is true about developers saying "It's too early to start the movie game" back at the time

well if that's true then spidey games are left with comic book source material... and that is really awesome news!

 

[Spider-Aziz]

well if that's true then spidey games are left with comic book source material... and that is really awesome news!

I hope it indeed is awesome news, by them giving awesome games

 

[MrCitrin3]

I hope it indeed is awesome news, by them giving awesome games

i'm kinda of out of the loop about gaming conventions :P the only one i know about is E3 and comic-con

so when can we expect to know more about EoT?

 

[spider13]

I'm getting more and more exicted about this game as more stuff is revealed.

 

[MrCitrin3]

the only thing i know about it is that spidey needs to work with 2099 in order to stop alchemax from being created to early :/

 

[Anno_Domini]

^^ Well, that's pretty much all you need to know really, haha.

 

[MrCitrin3]

haha yeah but still :P

it would be awesome if there was truth to the rumor you can roam around after you finish the game...

but i don't see how... won't alchemax stop existing in the past? i dunno strange

 

[ProjectPat2280]

It's kind of late to start developing that, if what I read a while back is true about developers saying "It's too early to start the movie game" back at the time

I can assure you that game is in development. Unless Marvel is holding Activision back from making that game(which I doubt) then there will be a tie in to ASM.

 

[MrCitrin3]

It's kind of late to start developing that, if what I read a while back is true about developers saying "It's too early to start the movie game" back at the time

I can assure you that game is in development. Unless Marvel is holding Activision back from making that game(which I doubt) then there will be a tie in to ASM.

awwww man

 

[Spider-Aziz]

I'm getting more and more exicted about this game as more stuff is revealed.

I reached my peak excitement about this one, then it fell

 

[GamerSlyRatchet]

A reward for those who played SD:

http://ps3.ign.com/articles/118/1183859p1.html

 

[Spider-ManHero12]

That's good news!

 

[Havok83]

Thats a sh-t load of costumes and available at the very start? Awesome!

 

[GamerSlyRatchet]

Comic-Con demo:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=062ND4FqW14&feature=related

 

[ProjectPat2280]

Wow, 10 costumes for playing SD? Nice.

Please one be Ben Reily.